It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown by Charles M. Schulz

They found boxes, which included alternate takes and unedited live performances. Before his death in 2019, Mendelson asked his children to find the original analog reels from the Peanuts scores. The Great Pumpkin sessions had been considered lost to time. But much of the music has not been as accessible. 27, 1966, was nominated for an Emmy, and can be seen any time on Apple TV+. It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown premiered on Oct. Production was done a few weeks ahead of the airdate, and overseen by John Scott Trotter, a composer, arranger, and conductor who worked as musical director for Bing Crosby for 30 years. They were joined at the sessions by Emmanuel “Mannie” Klein on trumpet, John Gray on guitar, and Ronald Lang on woodwinds. The Vince Guaraldi Trio, which consisted of Guaraldi on piano and assorted keyboard instruments, bassist Monty Budwig, drummer Colin Bailey, recorded the soundtrack to the Charlie Brown Halloween special at Desilu’s Gower Street Studio in Hollywood. Signed to Bay Area jazz label Fantasy Records in 1956, Guaraldi broke into the commercial charts with his third album, Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus (1962), which is being reissued by Craft Recordings for its 60th anniversary. Guaraldi started as a side man to combos fronted by Cal Tjader and Woody Herman, and was one of the first musicians to embrace bossa nova which culminated in a collaboration with Brazilian guitarist Bola Sete. Guaraldi then composed and recorded the soundtrack to the 1965 holiday classic A Charlie Brown Christmas, and the June 1966 television special, Charlie Brown’s All Stars!. While the documentary never aired, the soundtrack, Jazz Impressions of A Boy Named Charlie Brown, was a crossover hit, introducing a young generation to jazz. He was first hired to score a TV documentary about Schulz, A Boy Named Charlie Brown, in 1964.

San Francisco Bay area jazz pianist Vince Guaraldi had been part of the Peanuts’ creative gang for two years by the time he was called in for It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.

It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown by Charles M. Schulz